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Who would write this year "2020"?
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It’s a TV series produced by Roger Corman, written by Stephen King, George Orwell, Joss Whedon and Joseph Heller.Corman is the one who insisted on the murder hornets episode.
I don't know, I'm not seeing much of Whedon or Heller's sense of humor in this viewing. And I really have no desire to rewatch. Are you sure Jim Butcher didn't have something to do with the writing, it has his sense of crazy to it, and I think he just cast everyone as the protagonist, and thus must keep bringing the pain down on them.
Stephen King. Someone accidentally killed the year and they brought it back by burying it in the Year Sematary.
John (Nevets) wrote: "I don't know, I'm not seeing much of Whedon or Heller's sense of humor in this viewing. And I really have no desire to rewatch. "Whedon is randomly killing people off in order to throw monkey wrenches into the plot. Heller created Trump and is writing all his wackadoodle dialogue. King came up with zombie hurricane.
Shonda Rimes is clearly the showrunner.
John (Taloni) wrote: "Stephen King. Someone accidentally killed the year and they brought it back by burying it in the Year Sematary."Heh.
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Destiny, Death and Despair would be the stars. With occasional visits by Destruction.
Desire and Delirium can provide the comic light touch.
It's clearly a collaboration between Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick
I'm wondering when the covid-related pop culture is going to start coming out. "Mask Wars" -- the Netflix series. Maybe a Judd Apatow movie called "Lockdown", where Steve Carell adjusts to life indoors, and maybe it's not such a big adjustment. Does Stephen Colbert do virus jokes?
HP Lovecraft, for many reasons.Possibly Philip K. Dick. Reading current affairs makes me question my sanity sometimes.
William wrote: "HP Lovecraft, for many reasons.Possibly Philip K. Dick. Reading current affairs makes me question my sanity sometimes."
Sometimes.
Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Lem, obviously."You win the thread.
William wrote: "Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Lem, obviously."You win the thread."
He's got it all -
-absurd situation
-endless days of repetitive tasks that don't seem to matter
-an overarching threat of doom but also a separation from it
-trapped indoors
-a lot of mac & cheese
Lem! Ha! Can we pick an alt year? If so I vote for 1999 when the global panic was over whether computers would be able to read dates right.
Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Lem, obviously."
Jenny, my brother mailed my mother crab mac & cheese and lobster pot pie from Harry and David for her birthday, packed in dry ice. There were little lobster shapes embedded on top.
Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Lem, obviously."Now if we can just figure out how to get Veronica to stop reading “2020”....
I've mostly been reading the descriptions of whoever makes those tiny little offices you can disconnect from your main house....
Hahah this thread is GOLD! LEM - winner winner.
I agree with everyone who said King, if I had to pick a second writer then Crichton. Because tech has really screwed us
I see King as more obviously gory, like in The Stand where you step through a rotted skull on your way out of the tunnel. I feel 2020 is more Kafkaesque than that, which is really aided by the majority of people who live near me acting as if life is normal while I've been staying at home and following the rules for seven months (Clemson U down the road has the most COVID cases of any university! We're #1!)
I'm pretty sure 2020 is the prequel to 1984. If you don't think the math works out, then you haven't been paying attention, Winston.
Sean Lookielook wrote: "I'm pretty sure 2020 is the prequel to 1984. If you don't think the math works out, then you haven't been paying attention, Winston."“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
I've been getting flashbacks to Stephen Baxter's Titan. That's not a good thing.On a totally unconnected note, my working theory on 2020 is that NASA has secretly been working on an Improbability Drive and we are all seeing the side-effects.
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The Stand does have a memorable tour de force section in the beginning, where random people spread the disease.
Some great thoughts here! I wish I could like posts...but you know.
Trike wrote: "Here’s a brilliant short film in the style of 1917: https://youtu.be/skgcruZichc"That was awesome!
I just heard a reference to " The Long Pandemic Winter" on the news. My first thought was Oh Hell, I hope George RR Martin isn't writing it.
So it got me thinking who should write this year?